Yes, that Bosnian lady in the Ao-Dai hat. She looked like a seductress wrapped in a bedsheet yet exceptionally divine. It was unique and very Nordic.Īnother loose-fitting gown minus all the shimmer and jewels. This Swedish looked like a Christmas tree angel with her loose white lace gown with a unique cape.
For a woman of her times, this Lebanese was modern and bold.
However, not all click but those who do are hard to erase from our memory.Īmidst a bevy of embellished dresses, Georgina’s finale gown made her an instantaneous stand-out: an ornamented swimsuit piece overlaid with harem pants and shoulders. It is rather ironic that at the end of the beauty contest, ‘individuality’ is the key factor determining the ultimate winner and behind the curtains what this very industry idealizes is urging girls ‘to fit into a type.’ No matter how long this paradox sustains, there have been girls who have rebelled against these standards. Also in countries like Venezuela, girls are enrolled in beauty courses in schools. Take the age scale down and one finds an extreme case in shows like ‘Toddlers and Tiaras’, where innocent and supple babes are caked with paint, donned with hair extensions, fake eyelashes, false teeth and prom dresses, only to make them look like mini adults. Nonetheless, it is rather pitying that girls groom themselves according to the stereotypes accorded to beauty pageants.
No wonder then, every year, thousands of aspiring young girls try their luck in numerous auditions, state heats and national pageants – only for one shining star in the sky in their eyes – that precious crown. Add the glare of media onto it and one has an instant staircase to stardom and publicity. Beauty pageants, whether good or bad, have always perpetrated the stereotype of what-one-should-look-like. More often than not, you throw the word pageant in and the above descriptions would be the immediate picture one conjures.
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